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FENGiPOST APPLICATION HLED SEPLZS, I9". I 1,369.891. Patented. Nov. 23, 1920.

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' a T-fenoe post and 11 the rib thereof.

PERCY J. HINDMARS'H, OF LINCOLN, NEBRASKA.

FENCEPOST.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 23. 1920.

Application flied September 23. 1919. Serial No. 325,805;

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, lnnev J. HmmmnsI-r. a citizen of the ['nited States, residing at Lincoln, in the eounty oi Laneaster. State of Nebraska, have invented new and useful improvements in Feneeposts. of whieh the following is a speeitieation. ret'erenee being had therein to the aeeompanying drawing.

Line fenee posts for wire tent-es are made of rolled steel T-shaped in erossseotion the face and rib being made of the same thickness, which is about three-sixteenths of an ineh. As the priee at whieh they sell controls the weight of metal used in the post, the fare of the post (em-responding to the head oi the T). is so narrow that the post eanuot stand up unless to the part below ground an extra pieee or plate" is riveted to ive the width neeessarv to the stability o the post. The objeet of my inven-- tion is to make unneeessary the use of this additional )lfllSP. which adds to the rust. without adding to the weight of the post. to give it the required faee bearing in the ground that it must have to assure its stahility.

In the annexed drawing:

Figure 1 is a Ljerspeetive view of a fenee post made in aeeordanee with my invention: and

Fig. 2 is a horizontal section thereof.

In the d 'awing. 10 designates the t'aee of The rib'is of the, standard or usual width and thiekness. namely one and one-half 'inehes by about three-sixteenths. I that by rolling the face to reduee the thiekness from about three-sixteenths to threethirty-seconds of an ineh, the face can be widened to an extent that will assure the post all required stability when planted in have found the ground, and with ne addition of metal whatever, and without any impairment of its strength in the direetion in which its strength should be greatest aeeording to no eepted praetiee. which is at right angl s to the t'enee line. My post therefore, has the struetural eharaeteristie of the face member of less thickness and greater width than the rib.

For supporting the wires, I punch vertical tongues or hooks 13 at slaved intervals. alternate ones of which. vertleally have their open ends up and down so that. adjaeent strands ll of woven Wire will eateh oppw sitely turned hooks. and thus. whether the t'enee goes down or up hill. the wires eannot pull out of the hooks.

I claim:

1. fence post of T-eross section of rolled metal having its face of greater width and less thickness than its rib or shank. the post being of the same eross section throughout substantially its length. the total weight of metal being the same substantially as if fare and rib were of like width and thickness. the surface of the ree opposite the rih being crossed by the fence wire.

:5. A t'enee post of T-eross section of rolled metal having i i we of greater width and less thiekness than its rih. or shank. the post being of the Hanueross section throughout substantially its length, the total weight of metal being substantially the same as if face and rib were of like width and thiekness. the surt'aee of the fare opposite the rib being erossed by the fence wire, said faee having spin-ed wire-engaging hooks in different vertieal planes. opening respeetively, up and down.

In testlnlon whereof l aliix mv signature.

'ERCY J. H LNDMARSH. 

